How To Disable Delete Post Functionality For Everyone Except Administrator

Posted by admin in Wordpress Tips, Role... | 11.26.2009 - 5:15 am

WordPress has a pretty decent role management in place, which allows you to create users and assign them certain privileges and functionality. However, there are few things which you cannot do right now with it. For example, creating new roles, modifying role privileges and so on.
The Role Manager plugin fills in that void and adds a very robust role management interface to WordPress. Though I won’t go into much detail about the plugin, I just wanted to highlight a simple trick, using which you can disable delete functionality for post and pages and retain it with only the administrator of the blog.
Disabling delete functionality may be done for several reasons, specifically on multi-author blogs. However, my sole reason for doing this is that “Precaution is better than Cure”.
To disable delete functionality for post and pages, install the Role Manager plugin (if you haven’t done it already) and click on the […]

Original post by Keith Dsouza

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